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Petals 2-lobed; anterior lobe 3–7(8.5)× 2.5–6 mm, ovate, spreading, the upper margin incurved; posterior lobe equalling anterior lobe in length, or exceeding it by one third, truncate or ovate lanceolate.
Terrestrial herb, up to 500 mm tall. Spur shorter than dorsal sepal. Petals bilobed, anterior lobe ovate, posterior lobe one-third taller, oblanceolate, obliquely truncate. Flowers bright red.
Fertile shoots 20–100 cm tall; leaves imbricate to subimbricate, the basal 2 reduced to short sheaths blotched with red; the remainder 3–10 cm long, lanceolate, subacuminate, mostly sheathing.
Sterile shoots to 15 cm tall, with 2–4 suberect conduplicate leaves, 10–30 × 1–4 cm, linear-elliptic, acute or apiculate; basal sheath, often blotched or red-striped.
Spur pendent from below the middle of the galea, reaching to below the base of the sepal, slender, 3.5–9 mm long, cylindrical to rarely subclavate.
Floral bracts inconspicuous, as long as the ovaries, taller than ovaries at base of inflorescence, narrowly ovate, acuminate.
Dorsal sepal subrhomboid; galea 4.5–11 mm long, narrowly oblong to lanceolate, subacute.
Lateral sepals suboblique, 5–12 × 3–6(8) mm, oblong-ovate, obtuse to rounded.
Linear leaves up to 18 in. long on sterile shoots and sheaths on the scape
Terrestrial herb with separate sterile and fertile shoots.
Inflorescence dense, 3–14 cm long, 20–100-flowered.
Flowers bright red to carmine, or pink.
An erect terrestrial herb, 1-3 ft. high
Lip 4–12 mm long, linear.
Stigma equally 3-lobed.
Flowers pink or purple
Ovary 10–20 mm long.
Anther 3–5 mm long.
